Add tests against python (WIP) #4
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This is still a WIP, and I'd like to get some feedback on this approach first.
Given that a lot of the functionality is available in Python and widely tested, I think it would make sense to test against Python. This can save a lot of time in generating/writing test code, and we profit from the widely tested Python libraries.
Currently, I only added one test for the reverse bessel roots and limited the
nbecause for highernthetry_n_rootswas returning an error.If Python is not available, the test function does not get called, any error on importing SciPy will be ignored, and the test gets skipped.
What do you think about this approach? One disadvantage is that python with SciPy is required for those tests, but I think it makes writing tests so trivial that it is worth introducing it.